Tag: Children’s story

  • Old Women in Books: on publishing your mother

    Today is my mum’s birthday. Ghillian Potts is 84. Like me, she has written all her literate life, and still has a notebook full of poems written between the ages of about 7 and 12, (of variable quality!) To celebrate, my publishing company, Arachne Press, is publishing two of her books today. I crowd funded…

  • My Life in Fairytales

    I told stories before I could write.  I mean proper stories, not fibs.  My Mum is a writer and she told us stories every night to get us to go to sleep, she usually had characters who were a bit grumpy, I have vivid memories of lying in the lower bunk aged 3 or 4,…